Gentlemen of the press, I welcome you all to this press conference
today 6th August, 2017. The purpose of this briefing is to intimate you on the
shooting incident that happened this morning. At about 6.30hrs of today, 6th
August 2017.
I got a distress call that gunmen had invaded St. philip Catholic
church Amakwa in Ozubulu, Ekwusigo LGA while the mass was going on and shot at
worshipers. Police teams along with other sister security agencies under my
direct supervision were deployed to the scene to rescue the worshippers.
Victims were evacuated to the hospital, and the hospital authority has
confirmed 11 persons dead, and 18 injured as a result of the shooting.
The Executive governor of the state visited the scene while I was
there, and assured the injured persons of his support in offsetting the medical
bills and that the full wrath of law will be visited on the perpetrators. The
Command under my watch will leave no stone unturned in locating and prosecuting
those behind the massacre of innocent worshippers.
The Command assures Ndi Anambra and the general public that the Police
is on top of the situation and will locate and prosecute the perpetrators soon.
Intelligence report/Preliminary investigation shows that the incident is as a
result of a feud between two individuals who are from the community but who
live outside Nigeria, one of the individual we learnt, built the church where
the incident occurred. It is definitely not a terrorist attack in the mould of
boko haram or fulani herdsmen attack.
The Command views this dastardly act as sacrilegious but for now
considers it still premature to disclose the identities of those involved in
the act. The Command will brief the public after investigation is concluded. I
commiserate with all those who lost their loved ones from this unfortunate
incident and pledge that the command would not rest on its oars until the
perpetrators are apprehended to face justice. I want to also encourage Ndi
Anambra to be vigilant and to report strange and suspicious movement of persons
and actions in their locality to the security agencies promptly, please. Thanks
and God bless.
CP GARBA BABA UMAR psc
COMMISSIONER OF POLICE ANAMBRA STATE
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